01c. 1642 ADWhat shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
03c. 1642 ADWe spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
04c. 1642 ADHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
05c. 1642 ADThe thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
06c. 1642 ADFill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
07c. 1642 ADA mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
08c. 1642 ADHope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
09c. 1642 ADTh' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
10c. 1642 ADNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
11c. 1642 ADWhen Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
12c. 1642 ADAn harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
14c. 1642 ADLet but thy wicked men from out thee go, And all the fools that crowd thee so, Even thou, who dost thy millions boast, A village less than Islington wilt grow, A solitude almost.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
15c. 1642 ADThe fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
17c. 1642 ADHence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
21c. 1642 ADThus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
23c. 1642 ADIf heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
24c. 1642 ADIf we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time.Abraham Cowley / quote ↗
